From: Daniel Nugent <nugend@...>
Date: 2006-02-22T03:10:01+09:00
Subject: Re: need for threads

Uh, yeah, that's pretty much why not all code is threaded.

On the other hand, in programs above a certain size, or ones that have
graphical user interface, there usually is something else that you can
do while you're waiting on that resource.

On 2/21/06, tony summerfelt <snowzone5@hotmail.com> wrote:
> a discussion of tcl threads came up in that newsgroup.
>
> one of the posts stopped me cold. the msg boiled down to:
>
> on a single non-ht cpu if your program can't do soemthnig while
> waiting on a resource there's no real need for threaded code.
>
> threading will actually slow down your program overall.
>
> http://home.cogeco.ca/~tsummerfelt1
> telnet://ventedspleen.dyndns.org
>
>


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-Dan Nugent